Balkan News

Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said Tuesday that the Croatian government has not yet considered withdrawal of the the genocide charges against Serbia. The lawsuit was filed at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Serbia has its own genocide countersuit against Croatia.

Serbia’s Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković will pay an official visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina this Wednesday. During the visit, Cvetković will meet with President of the Bosnian Council of Ministers Nikola Špirić, the government press office said. 

The European Union set out 21 benchmarks that Croatia has to meet if it wants to conclude judiciary chapter by the end of the year and sign accession treaty next year. The documents says that more than 90 percent of the benchmarks refer to the government and government policy.

The appellate chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has ordered a partial retrial of the case of Ramush Haradinaj and two other former commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and the immediate detention of the three men.

The European Commission published progress reports Tuesday on Bulgaria and Romania in the field of judiciary and interior affairs. The EC praised Bulgaria’s efforts to tackle organised crime and corruption and its

Representatives of the ruling party and the opposition agreed Monday (July 19th) to form an inquiry committee that will investigate an incident in parliament on July 1st. The committee will be chaired by Hajrula Misini of the Democratic Union for Integration and will be composed of two representatives of the …

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has sent a letter to the Croatian government seeking co-operation over documents related to arms smuggling during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict, the UN war crimes tribunal announced on Monday (July 19th). Karadzic wants to use the documents as part of his defence at The …

Greece’s prime minister is planning a diplomatic initiative in order to “revive” the stalled Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project in which his country is a partner together with Bulgaria and Russia, media reports say. George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, is expected to pay a visit to the Bulgarian capital Sofia …

The prosecution in the Hague has called a new witness, a former UN general in Bosnia, to the stand at the trial of Radovan Karadzic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY. Hussein Ali Abdel-Razek, a former general in Egyptian army, was head of the Sarajevo sector …

Marko Boskic, a former member of the 10th Reconnaissance Squad of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, was sentenced to ten years in prison by a first instance verdict for participating in the murder of several hundred men from Srebrenica in July 1995.